The migrant birds illegally shot in Malta
This blog is from the RSPB’s Bugs, Birds and Beasts in the East blog page Blog by Tara Proud, RSPB Species Recovery Officer & Operation Turtle Dove Project Manager Each spring thousands of migrant birds cross Malta on their way to breeding grounds in Europe, and some of them even choose the UK as their […]
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Birds without borders – Birds mag article – April 2013
Birds without borders
To coincide with the return of the Turtle Dove to our shores, the summer edition of the RSPB’s Birds magazine carries an article by natural history writer, Mike Unwin, charting the trials and tribulations suffered by the migratory Turtle Dove; from it’s sub-saharan wintering quarters where ideal habitats are disappearing, over desert regions and hunting grounds, […]
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